Love Affair

press release: USA | 1939 | DCP | 87 min.

Director: Leo McCarey; Cast: Irene Dunne, Charles Boyer, Maria Ouspenskaya

Dunne and Boyer are two classy strangers who meet aboard a luxury liner and fall in love. Both involved with other people, they make a promise to meet on New Year’s Eve at the Empire State Building...then fate intervenes. Spiritually and comically inspired, director McCarey later remade Love Affair as An Affair to Remember. Available for decades only in highly inferior public domain versions, this new restoration of McCarey’s superb original brings the sparkle back to one of the 1930s most magical and heartwarming classics. Restored by The Museum of Modern Art and Lobster Films with support from The Celeste Bartos Fund for Film Preservation.

Screenings mostly take place at 4070 Vilas Hall, 821 University Avenue. Once-a-month Sunday afternoon screenings take place at the Chazen Museum of Art, 750 University Avenue. In accord with current UW Madison policies, masks are required for entry to our venues. All Cinematheque screenings are free and open to the public. Please visit our website for a complete listing of programs and descriptions.